Residency Program
The Fictional Café offers two unique opportunities to poets and writers. Our Residency Program gives one poet and one writer each a two year position on our site as the lead artist in their chosen medium. During their two years of residency, each honoree is featured on our site regularly with their own works of poetry, fiction, essay, memoir, commentary and even visual art: any creative outlet can be expressed.
In addition to two years of work featured on our site, each resident will receive a slot in our next print anthology as well as a nomination for a Pushcart Prize.
Upon completion of their residency, each resident is offered the opportunity to publish a collection of works we’ve featured on our site in book format via our Fictional Café Press imprint. This book will celebrate their time at the helm of their craft by showcasing all their work in one place in tangible form.
Residents are chosen by our Editorial Board based on a continued presentation of quality work over several years of experience with each individual as well as the Board’s belief in the individual’s future ability in their particular craft.
Poet-in-Residence PS Conway
PS Conway is The Fictional Cafe Poet in Residence for 2024-2025. He published his first poetry collection, Echoes Lost in Stars, earlier this year. Visit his page here.
Writer-in-Residence Rachel Gonzalez
Rachel Gonzalez is The Fictional Cafe Fiction Writer in Residence for 2024-2025. She recently earned her Master’s degree in English Literature at Northern Arizona University. She frequently shares her short stories and creative nonfiction with us.
Previous Residents
Derrick R. Lafayette Was Our First Writer-in-Residence.
Tobias and the Wildflower Utopia
Vera West, Our 2022-2023 Poet-in-Residence.
Plucked A Novel in Verse Excerpt
Tobias and the Wildflower Utopia
